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If you have any questions, comments or want to know more about Orthodox
Christianity, please contact us by:
- Telephone:
- (530) 356-1771
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- Postal Address:
- 1414 Tehama St., Redding, CA 96001
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 E-mail
- General Information, Fr Michael Boyle:
frmichael.boyle@gmail.com
Webmaster, Alexis:
alexis@standrewfoolforchrist.org
Our Mission:
To live under the authority and in the embrace of the Holy
Orthodox Church, in sacramental fellowship, loving God and our neighbor,
fulfilling the Gospel of Christ.
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"If
we live as people of God, there will be room for all nations in the Balkans and
in the world. If we liken ourselves to Cain who killed his brother Abel, then
the entire earth will be too small even for two people. The Lord Jesus Christ
teaches us to be always children of God and love one another. We should remember
the words of St. Paul: "If it be possible, as much as lies in you, live
peaceably with all men." - Patriarch Pavle of the Serbian
Orthodox Church |
St.
Andrew the Fool-for-Christ Serbian Orthodox Church in Redding, California, is a
parish of the Serbian Orthodox Church
Diocese of Western America.
| With pastoral blessings by
The
Right Reverend Maxim, Bishop of the Serbian Orthodox
Diocese of Western
America. |
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"At
first we were confused. The East thought that we were West, while the West
considered us to be East. Some of us misunderstood our place in the clash of
currents, so they cried that we belong to neither side, and others that we
belong exclusively to one side or the other. But I tell you, Ireneus, we are
doomed by fate to be the East in the West and the West in the East, to
acknowledge only heavenly Jerusalem beyond us, and here on earth--no one" -
St. Sava to Ireneus, 13th century. |
The Orthodox Way of Life
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"Orthodoxy is not merely a ritual, or belief, or pattern of behavior, or
anything else that a man may possess, thinking that he is thereby a Christian,
and still be spiritually dead; it is rather an ELEMENTAL REALITY OR POWER which
transforms a man and gives him the strength to live in the most difficult and
tormenting condition, and prepares him to depart with peace into eternal life.
The essence of the true Orthodox life is GODLINESS or piety, which is, in
definition of St. Nectarius of Optina, based on the etymology of the word,
"holding what is God's in honor." This is deeper than mere right doctrine; it
is the entrance of God into every aspect of life, life lived in trembling and
fear of God. Such an attitude produces the Orthodox WAY OF LIFE which is not
merely the outward customs or behavior that characterizes Orthodox Christians,
but the whole of the conscious spiritual struggle of
the man for whom the Church and its laws are the center of everything he does
and thinks. The shared, conscious experience of this way of life,
centered on the daily Divine services, produces the genuine Orthodox community,
with its feeling of lightness, joy and inward quietness." |
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Archbishop Andrew of New Diveyevo,
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